Stanley Bruce

Stanley Bruce (15 April 1883-25 August 1967) was Prime Minister of Australia from 9 February 1923 to 22 October 1929, succeeding Billy Hughes and preceding James Scullin. Bruce was a member of the Nationalist Party of Australia and the United Australia Party, both of them conservative.

Biography
Stanley Bruce was born in St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia on 15 April 1883, and he was educated in his native Melbourne. Bruce spent his formative years in England, studying at Cambridge and becoming a lawyer. He served in the British Army at Gallipoli and in France during World War I, and he returend to Australia in 1917. From 1928 to 1929, he served in the House of Representatives as a Nationalist Party of Australia politician, and he served as a United Australia Party member from 1931 to 1933. Bruce served briefly as federal Treasurer before succeeding Billy Hughes as Prime Minister in 1923, and he led a coalition government with the Nationalist Party of Australia. He sought to further Australia's links with Britain by attracting British immigration, industrial investment, and trade, but job creation could not keep up with immigration, so unemployment grew and trade union hostility increased. Bruce lost his seat in the 1929 elections, and he served as Australia's High Commissioner in London from 1933 to 1945, also serving as Australia's chief representative at the League of Nations. From 1946 to 1951, he served as Chairman of the World Food Council of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and he became Viscount Bruce of Melbourne in 1947 and Chancellor of the Austarlian National University in Canberra in 1951. He died in London in 1967 at the age of 84.